cold war

After the Second World War , all the Superpower Nations that existed before the world war exhausted and the United States as well as the Soviet Union emerged as Superpowers politically , economically as well as technologically

The state of competition , tension and conflict that came in to existence after the Second World War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union (USSR ) is known as Cold War . The United States formed a group of countries that supported Capitalism and tried to eliminate Communism , while the Soviet Union formed a group of

nations that supported Communism . The Cold War existed from the mid 1940 's to the early 1990 's . Apart from these two groups , a non-alignment movement headed by India was formed in the early 1960 's that did not support any of these two Superpowers . This group did not participate in the Cold War

During the period of Cold War , the world saw rivalry between the two Superpowers through development of new weapons , military coalitions propagandas , competitive technological developments , espionage , etc

During this period , the world experienced the Berlin blockade , Korean War , Vietnam War , Berlin Crisis , Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the Soviet War in Afghanistan and the NATO exercises . All these events started to raise doubts in the minds of the people throughout the world regarding Third World War

Both the Superpowers started a race for weapons and Nuclear Weapons were produced by countries on both the sides . This race for nuclear weapons further increased tension...